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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Passive voice

Hello teachers,

A: The house was broken into.
B: He can’t be counted on.
C: I was stared at.
D: He was being looked for.
D: I am looked up to.
F: I was ran into.


Are these sentences in the passive voice correct? Also, can any active voice sentence with verb+preposition+object be made into passive sentences? For eg.

A: I looked at him.
B: He was looked at by me.


A: I yelled at him.
B: He was yelled at by me.

First of all, are sentence Bs correct? As you can see active voice sentences As are with sentence structure verb+preposition+object. Can any sentence with this active voice sentence structure with verb+preposition+object work in the passive voice?

  

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anonymous B: He was looked at by me. anonymous B: He was yelled at by me. That is very unnatural English.

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  • anonymous B: He was looked at by me.
  • anonymous B: He was yelled at by me.
  • That is very unnatural English.
  • You will not hear this sort of sentence from a native speaker's lips.
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anonymousB: He was looked at by me.
anonymousB: He was yelled at by me.

That is very unnatural English. You will not hear this sort of sentence from a native speaker's lips.

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anonymousI was ran run into.

This was the only wrong one. The past participle of 'run' is 'run'.

anonymouscan any active voice sentence with verb+preposition+object be made into passive sentences?

No. Some of them work in the passive; others don't.

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